At 5th District forum, McAllister and Riser agree on most issues

11:43 PM,
Nov. 8, 2013

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BATON ROUGE - Both Republican candidates in the Nov. 16 5th Congressional District runoff election agree that the Affordable Care Act isn't performing as promised, but they differ on how to solve the problems.

Both Vance McAllister, a Monroe businessman, and Neil Riser, a state senator and businessman from Columbia, said Friday night in a forum televised by Louisiana Public Broadcasting that the ACA, commonly referred to as Obamacare, should be repealed.

But McAllister said that until that happens he believes other steps should be taken to protect the thousands of people in the 5th ...